DD is 17m and despite sleeping through from 8-12 weeks (which i realise now was just a fluke) since then she has given us various sleep issues to tackle over the last 12 months. She has never needed a huge amount of sleep at night. We have had to resort to keeping her up to 8pm and only giving her a 1hr dtn to avoid her waking in the night and to get her to wake about 6-6.15.
However the last few nights, her wake up time has been getting earlier and earlier and we are now down to 5.30 wakeups. 6am onwards I can handle but 5.30 is just too early both for us and her.
When she is up so early, she is ready for a sleep again by 9.30-10 but if she has two dtn's she is awake in the night. We usually manage to hold her out till 11.30 for lunch and then put her to sleep at 12 for an hour or she falls asleep at 11 but then is up at 12pm for the day till 8pm. Also, the earlier she wakes in the morning, the harder that is to do.
When she wakes in the morning she is normallly happy to chat in her cot so i try and leave her in her cot for as long as she is happy so that she gets as much rest as possible but she is still awake from this time (and so are we!). It also means that she is only having about 10.5 hours sleep in total incl dtns. I don't really think i should be cutting her dtn down any more but not sure why she is getting up so early. Her bedroom is approx 18 degrees and she is never desperate for food or drink when she gets up. Any ideas anyone??